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Builders’ Links
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BricsNet bills itself as a global
e-marketplace for all sorts of design and construction. Its
comprehensive databases cover design and engineering, building
supplies, discussions and tech tools.
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Builder Online has dozens of project
highlights from its magazine, plus tool guides, bulletin boards,
thousands of searchable house plans, nationwide builder revenue
ratings, high-tech home ideas and scores of helpful articles.
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World of Concrete has online articles,
product guides, trade show info and truckloads more on all things
concrete.
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The Housing Zone covers everything from
legislation and tool reviews to environmental concerns, product
guides, building codes, associations, house plans, business and
management advice, plus full text searches of over 2500 web sites
from residential building manufacturers, associations, and
government offices.
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The National Association of Home Builders’
site offers timely news, controversial issues, government and
association links, in-depth industry statistics and a valuable
Resource Center with seminars, databases and articles.
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Buzzsaw.com offers dynamic online project
collaboration (to keep your far-flung project team in touch), as
well as business services, credit reports and searchable
catalogues for products, resources and professionals.
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A great feature at Contractor.com is its huge library of
articles (over 1,000 of them) on everything from deck-cleaning
chemicals to how to manage difficult clients. You’ll also find
downloadable business form templates, searchable materials
suppliers’ list (for 7 states), discussion boards, training,
classified ads and news about business, construction and (what
else?) sports.
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At Realtor.com, you’ll find marketing tips
(how about creating an online 360-degree model home tour?), buyer
calculation tools, neighborhood assessments, links to lenders and,
of course, lots of realtors (with over 1.3 million homes listed).
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Fine Homebuilding offers virtual home
tours, highly participatory discussion areas and online ordering
of books, videos and magazine back issues. You’ll also find
articles on tools, materials and techniques.
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The Journal of Light Construction is heavy
on magazine articles, industry links, product directories,
discussion groups and lists of hard-to-find books.
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Aimed primarily at consumers, ImproveNet offers a wealth of tips,
tools, and advice. They screen hundreds of thousands of contractors
nationwide and offer this certified list to consumers (find out about how you can join it).
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At BuildingTeam.com, you’ll find cost data, risk management tips,
legal information and loads of articles from publications like Building
Design & Construction, Consulting-Specifying Engineer and Environmental
Building News.
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